Walking into FrozeN2 Cafe, customers have the choice of three desserts: edible cookie dough, nitrogen ice cream, or their infamous dragon breath ice cream. FrozeN2, located at 151st and Blackbob Road, is the first restaurant in Kansas City to offer the dragon breath dessert concept. They’re cereal balls are expanded from liquid nitrogen and an overwhelming amount of people have come to FrozeN2 to try this unique creation. FrozeN2 Cafe officially opened on Dec. 15 and has served nearly a thousand people a day since their opening, according to owner Osman Cayir.

FrozeN2’s most popular selling item is their dragon breath dessert, according to manager Olivia Edwards. Employees at FrozeN2 take multi-colored cereal balls imported from overseas and pour liquid nitrogen over them which creates a bubbling fog around the cup and causes the cereal to expand and freeze. The cereal balls are so cold that when eaten, the warmth of people’s mouths causes the liquid to turn into a gas. As customers devour their dessert, each cold and crunchy ball causes them to breathe out a cloud of harmless white vapor, giving this dessert its name dragon breath.

“We were not prepared for such a large crowd,” Edwards said. “We never ran out but every day the line wrapped around the store and sometimes even outside.”

For $6 customers receive a cup of sizzling cereal, a choice of chocolate or strawberry dipping sauce and a long chopstick-like toothpick to eat it with. While this unique dessert is very trendy, it does not live up to all the hype. Although when accompanied by the dipping sauce the cereal is more flavorful, the dessert was still very disappointing. The dragon breath dessert was nowhere near filling and each bite left a bizarre aftertaste.

Customers are expected to consume their dessert almost immediately in order to get the full dragon breath effect. Roughly three to four minutes after being served, the cereal cools off and the dragon breath effect is nowhere near as sensational. After the dessert completely cools off, customers are left with a cup of colorful expanded cereal balls that look like Fruit Loops and an exceptionally large toothpick to eat them with.

When deciding where to go for dessert, FrozeN2 should not be among the top 10 ice cream places to go in Olathe. There are much better stores in the same area that are more reasonably priced such as Glacier Cove, Cold Stone Creamery or Sheridan’s Frozen Custard.